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Sep 14, 2003, 9:58 PM

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Sep 14, 2003, 9:58 PM

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Nice freeware text editor - PSPad

It's really nice. Being actively developed. Lots of features like diff.

http://www.pspad.com

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Sep 15, 2003, 1:22 AM

Andy

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Sep 15, 2003, 1:22 AM

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Cool...gonna download this. I'm fed up with Notepad and Wordpad on XP messing up my newlines in perl/php scripts.. they all just appear on one line (only sometimes....but when they do it really annoys me).

Thanks for the link :)

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Sep 15, 2003, 12:27 PM

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Sep 15, 2003, 12:27 PM

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Got this installed now.. what a great program! The only down side to it I have found so far, is that you don't seem to be able to turn 'auto complete' off, and Ctrl+a or 'select all' don't seem to be an option?

Otherwise, a top notce progam! Thanks for the link Smile

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Sep 16, 2003, 11:26 AM

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Sep 16, 2003, 11:26 AM

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Select All

Edit > Select All

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Auto Complete

I think this might be what you're looking for. There might be other things, too.

Tools > Program Settings > "Completion of Chars...."

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Sep 16, 2003, 11:30 AM

Andy

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Sep 16, 2003, 11:30 AM

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Great, that worked :) Not sure why Ctrl+A wasn't working before, but that seems to work now too :)

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Sep 17, 2003, 9:15 AM

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Sep 17, 2003, 9:15 AM

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Has a nice "Reformat HTML to look better" button

View > Toolbars > HTML

The button is on the left.

It also has an HTML compress button.

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Sep 17, 2003, 9:17 AM

Andy

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Sep 17, 2003, 9:17 AM

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What would be cool, is 'find unmatched bracket' option Tongue

Going through 2000 line script at the moment, trying to find the missing bracket :(

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Sep 17, 2003, 9:22 AM

dan

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Sep 17, 2003, 9:22 AM

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That's a killer, and my greatest coding pet peeve. And for that reason, I'm the most careful with ensuring I close brackets - however, from time to time, one always slips by and then ugh!

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Sep 17, 2003, 9:23 AM

Andy

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Sep 17, 2003, 9:23 AM

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Ah well.. found it. Turned out to be a missing } at the end of a foreach. That bracket highlighting tool is cool :)

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Sep 17, 2003, 9:24 AM

Andy

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Sep 17, 2003, 9:24 AM

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In Reply To:

That's a killer, and my greatest coding pet peeve. And for that reason, I'm the most careful with ensuring I close brackets - however, from time to time, one always slips by and then ugh!

Yeah.. it was all working. I think I may have knocked delete when doing some other code changes :( All fixed now though, so that ok...lol

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Sep 17, 2003, 12:11 PM

Alex

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Sep 17, 2003, 12:11 PM

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In vim you can use % to find matching brackets, and in editplus you can use ctrl-]. Always very useful.

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Sep 17, 2003, 12:23 PM

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Sep 17, 2003, 12:23 PM

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EditPlus is still the king, but I'm always looking for good stuff..... Smile

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Sep 17, 2003, 12:41 PM

Andy

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Sep 17, 2003, 12:41 PM

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In Reply To:

In vim you can use % to find matching brackets, and in editplus you can use ctrl-]. Always useful.

Thanks...I'll have to remember that. I used EditPlus quite a bit too :)

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Sep 18, 2003, 10:16 PM

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Sep 18, 2003, 10:16 PM

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Version 4.2.6

Tools > Autocomplete

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Sep 19, 2003, 12:21 AM

Andy

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Sep 19, 2003, 12:21 AM

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What does that do though? Unsure

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Sep 19, 2003, 6:58 AM

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Sep 19, 2003, 6:58 AM

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Don't know yet..... Blush

I haven't had time to fully use this thing, but I thought I point this out cuz I think it's new in the latest version.

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Sep 19, 2003, 7:02 AM

Andy

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Sep 19, 2003, 7:02 AM

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LOL..np :)

I tried it on a basic script, with missing a } ...;

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl 

use strict; 

sub main_sub { 

  print "Testing"; 

sub number_2 { 

  print "another sub"; 

}

..and then run that command you suggested.... Didn't seem to do anything Tongue

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